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"A tough year for BIW"
Duncan Mactear of 4Projects has forwarded me an article about [my former employer] BIW Technologies, published recently to subscribers to Megabuyte.com (an "invaluable source of market intelligence for IT companies, their advisers and investors providing...
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ADePT Management
I attended the November meeting of the London Constructing Excellence Club last night, and heard a presentation by Andy Newton of Adept Management, talking about the Analytical Design Planning Technique (ADePT) and supporting software and services. I...
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Asite Autumn 09 release
UK construction collaboration vendor Asite has issued its Autumn 09 Release, says a website notice dated 6 November 2009. Three hightlights I picked out: New maps "mash-ups" - using either a Google Maps portlet or a Microsoft Virtual Earth Read...
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Recession hits Aconex order book, it sheds staff, but still grows
Australia-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration technology vendor Aconex has just signed off its accounts for the year ending 30 June 2009, and they show another year of growth, albeit slower than in previous years (see Aconex reports...
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ArchiCAD 13 and BIM collaboration
Over the past month, I have heard and read quite a bit about Graphisoft's ArchiCAD 13: First, I read Lachmi Khemlani's AECbytes review, telling me that, for the first time, a commercially available building information modelling (BIM) application...
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Keeping an Eye on Woobius
I wrote about the low-cost simple collaboration application Woobius earlier this year (first here, then here), and they've remained on my radar ever since, partly because of their participation in one of this year's Be2camp events (in Liverpool...
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BIW undertakes recapitalisation
One of the UK's leading providers of Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration applications, BIW Technologies, last week announced that it has successfully completed a recapitalisation deal backed by its largest shareholder, NovaVest Fund 1...
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Sep 09 2009, 09:29 AM
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Newforma targets the UK
On the same day last week that I swapped emails with Knowledge Architecture's Chris Parsons (see post), I read in AECcafe.com that New Hampshire, USA-based AEC software vendor Newforma was forming a user community in the UK (see Newforma Users......
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'Extranet' vendors getting social?
(This is a slightly amended version of a post from my pwcom2.0 blog that discusses how UK construction collaboration vendors are embracing social media as part of their communications mix.) I have spent much of the past ten years working... Read More...
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Collaboration vendors unveil (old) plans for deeper interoperability
Last month, members of the UK-based Network for Construction Collaboration Technology Providers (NCCTP) announced plans to provide greater integration between their different applications (see news release). At the time, I was too busy to write about...
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Asite upgrades and updates
In contrast with the somewhat depressing tone of my last post (Gloomy times for SaaS collaboration vendors), it's good to see UK SaaS collaboration vendor Asite being upbeat. The company has just upgraded its platform with its Summer 09 release,....
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Gloomy times for SaaS collaboration vendors
Today I have been hearing from well-placed sources that Sunderland, UK-based construction collaboration vendor 4Projects has started a wave of redundancies (I've no idea of the scale of the downsizing - 4Projects had about 44 staff this time last...
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Cereno nuVa
Two or three years ago, myself and a couple of other BIW colleagues were invited by contacts in Thales technology research and development team to go and see an experimental collaborative platform that it was developing in conjunction with people... Read...
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May 13 2009, 01:37 PM
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Woobius follow-up
Following my 22 April post, Whobius? Woobius, I met Bob Leung and Daniel Tenner in London to find out more about their business and to see a quick demonstration of their technology. Background Bob explained that he had started to... Read More...
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